Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 20 The fairy in the painting

After Zhou Yu's detailed diagnosis...

As a result, the root cause was not found.

Just as she was about to speak, Ying Ning came over and said softly, "Sir, according to my little girl's observation, she should have lost her soul."

"Ok?"

Zhou Yu frowned.

Not to mention, Jing Yingning's reminder is really a bit like a symptom of losing one's soul.

So he asked in a low voice, "Then do you know how to summon souls?"

Ying Ning: "Hee hee...no way!"

Zhou Yu: "..."

At this time, Chen Wenshan couldn't help asking: "Brother Zhou, how are you doing? Have you found out the crux of the problem?"

"This... Lingzheng's symptoms are a bit like soul-loss disease."

"Ah? Lost soul?" Chen Wenshan was taken aback, and then asked anxiously: "Then what should I do?"

A servant girl next to her answered, "Master, why don't you go find a master to summon your wife's soul."

Chen Wenshan nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, yes~"

Hearing the word summoning the soul, Zhou Yu couldn't help but move in his heart: "Brother Chen, if not, let Zhou give it a try first."

"Brother Zhou can still summon souls?"

Zhou Yu stroked his beard reservedly and smiled: "Hehe, don't dare to speak nonsense, just give it a try."

"Great, then I'll have to trouble Brother Zhou...By the way, Brother Zhou, what do you need to prepare?"

"No, you all stand far away."

After Chen Wenshan and his party backed away, Zhou Yu cleared his throat and used his skill "Slick Tongue" to recite Qu Yuan's "Soul Call".

"The soul is back, and the king's constant work is gone, what is the four directions?
It's more ominous to leave the place where you are happy.

When the soul returns, Dongfang can't trust it.

A long man is thousands of feet, but the soul is a little..."

While Zhou Yu was ecstatically reciting poems, Chen Wenshan and the two maids in the courtyard looked shocked.

Because, Zhou Yu's verses were faintly visible, and there was a gust of air in the courtyard, like ripples in water.

If it weren't for the fear of disturbing Zhou Yu, the two girls would have screamed a long time ago.

Ying Ning is fine, after all, she has seen her husband's abilities a long time ago, and knows that he is comparable to extraordinary people.

"Cough cough cough~"

Just halfway through the chant, Ji suddenly moved his body and let out a few light coughing sounds.

"lady!"

Seeing this, Chen Wenshan was overjoyed and rushed over like the wind.

"lady!"

The two servant girls came back to their senses, and ran up with surprise on their faces.

"Cough cough cough~"

Ji coughed for a while and finally recovered, stared blankly at her husband, then threw herself into her husband's arms and began to cry.

"Madam, it's okay, it's okay..." Chen Wenshan patted his wife on the back lovingly.

After crying for a while, Ji finally revealed the reason for her loss of soul.

It turned out that when she was walking in the backyard that afternoon, she accidentally found a black cat.

Cats are nothing to be afraid of, but the black cat Ji saw was too scary.

Not only is it much larger than ordinary cats, but two fangs are exposed from the corners of its mouth, and a blood-red light shines from its eyes...

"At that time, the cat glared at me viciously, and I screamed in fright, and passed out when my eyes went dark..."

Hearing about Ji's experience, Zhou Yu couldn't help but sighed, looked at Chen Wenshan and said, "Brother Chen, you'd better find someone to come to the house, because the cat Madam meets is obviously not a normal cat."

Chen Wenshan hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "It must be, thank you brother Zhou for reminding me."

"Okay, since Mrs. Ling is awake, Zhou will take his leave first."

Ji said anxiously: "Master Zhou, you have done such a great favor to my concubine, why should I stay here for a few glasses of wine?"

"Yes, yes, brother Zhou, you can't rush away..."

Zhou Yu smiled and cupped his hands and said: "Brother Chen, Mrs. Chen, I appreciate the kindness of the Xian couple. Mr. Zhou has something to do when he returns to his private school, so today is really inconvenient."

Hearing this, Chen Wenshan didn't want to force him to stay, he thought for a while and said, "Brother Zhou, wait a moment, I'll go down and get something."

"Brother Chen..."

"Just a little while."

Chen Wenshan hurried into the study, took a scroll and came back.

"Brother Zhou, thank you for your kindness. This is a painting I found accidentally, so I gave it to Brother Zhou as a token of my love."

Zhou Yu stretched out his hand to push back: "Brother Chen doesn't care about trivial matters..."

Mrs. Ji also persuaded: "Master Zhou, this is a little kindness from Wenshan, just accept it."

Having said that, Zhou Yu had no choice but to reach out and take the scroll: "Since that's the case, then Zhou will be disrespectful."

"Brother Zhou, if you are free another day, you must get drunk!"

"Hahaha, good! Then Zhou will leave first."

On the way back, Zhou Yu happily patted Ying Ning's head: "Girl, you made a great contribution today, tell me, what reward do you want?"

"Hee hee~"

"What are you laughing at? Don't want it?"

Ying Ning stuck out her tongue, and said a little embarrassedly: "Sir, can you give Ying Ning some money?"

Having said that, Zhou Yu suddenly realized that this girl is penniless, and all food and drink are bought by the maid.

It is estimated that she still wants to buy something she likes, but she is too embarrassed to ask.

So Zhou Yu immediately took out a few ingots of broken silver and handed them to Ying Ning: "Take it, and the master will send you money every month from now on.

But you have to remember two points, one is to go out as little as possible, and the other is to be accompanied by someone even if you go out, understand? "

"Mmmmm~"

Ying Ning nodded quickly, and put away the silver with joy.

That night, when Zhou Yu entered the study, he caught a glimpse of the picture scroll presented by Chen Wenshan on the desk.

So he stepped forward and slowly unfolded it, wanting to see what kind of painting it was.

"Ok?"

As soon as the scroll was unfolded, Zhou Yu's expression suddenly became a little complicated.

This is a picture of a beauty, accompanied by a little poem:
"I wanted to get up and leave the world of mortals, but my shadow fell into the world. Thousands of years ago, I turned around and smiled, only blaming the person in the fairy aunt's painting."

There is no signature on the painting, so it is not known who painted it.

Judging from the fineness of the painting, it should have been completed for decades.

But these are not the key points, the key point is that the faces of the beauties in the painting are too familiar to Zhou Yu.

She is Nie Xiaoqian in "A Chinese Ghost Story", she is Bai Suzhen in "Green Snake", and she is Shi Shi in "Heaven and Earth Xuanmen"...

Zhou Yu held up the painting and examined it carefully through the candlelight, but found nothing unusual.

The beauty in the painting is lifelike, with watery eyes and red lips, there is a charm that is about to come out of the painting...

After admiring it for a while, Zhou Yu hung the painting on the wall, stepped back and continued to appreciate it.

He muttered in his mouth: "It's a pity that it's just a painting. It would be great if I could really walk out of the painting."

As soon as the voice fell, the candlelight flickered.

Nothing happened.

Pity……

Zhou Yu admired it for a while, and then he decided to enter the library first as usual.

After returning to the study, he subconsciously called out the system interface to check for a while, and finally consumed a thousand luck points to upgrade "Sword" and "Calligraphy" to level 2.

According to the system description, the skill level is associated with the character's realm.

For example, if the realm is a scholar, then the upper limit of the skill level is 3. If you want to improve it, you must first upgrade the character realm.

"Oh, luck is not enough..."

Zhou Yu originally wanted to raise his kendo to the third level, but he was not lucky enough, so he had to wait a few more days...

(End of this chapter)